GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 270X, which comes with core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 270X		6590 points
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		3434 points
	Difference: 3156 (92%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270X		18 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (80%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (64%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 270X is 107% faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 92800 (107%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X should be a lot (approximately 35%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20608 (35%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 270X is superior to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17152 (116%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.